3.1. With BSD LPD and the lpr command
3.1. With BSD LPD and the lpr command
If you've already got lpd setup to print to your printer, or your
system administrator already did so, or your vendor did so for
you, then all you need to do is learn how to use the lpr command.
The Printing Usage HOWTO covers this, and a few other queue
manipulation commands you should probably know. Or just read the
lpr(1) man page.
In a nutshell, you specify the queue name with -P, and specify a filename to print a file,
or nothing to print from stdin. Driver options are traditionally
not controllable from lpr, but various systems accept certain
options with -o, -Z, or -J.
Example 1. lpr
lpr /etc/hosts
lpr -J "my hosts file" /etc/hosts
lpr -P mylaserjet /etc/services
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